Project Planner 2023-2024
Project Planner 2023-2024
If you are seeking a job as a Project Planner, the document below will guide you through the steps needed to find and apply for such jobs, and provide tips on how to make sure you are hired.
Purpose
- To support the senior project planner in monitoring and maintaining project schedules, creating and maintaining project baselines, and gathering schedule data to update, analyze, and prepare project reports for review by the discipline lead or project manager.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assist the senior project planner by conducting a guided review of the logic of the schedule and identifying threats and opportunities to the project schedule.
- Enhance the time management of the project team by setting up daily, weekly, and monthly milestone review meetings, keeping careful track of attendees and minutes and distributing the resulting materials to the team.
- By meticulously documenting changes to the Master and Contractual baseline schedules, baseline schedule revision control can be improved.
- By validating and sanity-checking the information displayed on progress dashboards and milestone reviews, you can increase the accuracy of project information.
- To ensure that the progress being reported to management is accurate, review and manage daily and weekly contractor schedule progress updates.
- Create baseline schedules for each discipline or HOD lead to help track activities that could have an impact.
Desired Experience & Qualification
- It’s crucial to have N3 in math and science in grade 12.
It is necessary to have a 3-year degree or diploma in civil engineering, quantity surveying, or construction management.
An advantage would be professional registration with a Project Scheduling/Project Management body. - Any training or certifications in project scheduling or management would be beneficial.
- Having 2 to 3 years of scheduling experience in the mining or construction industries is necessary.
- To obtain such a certificate, you must either have a valid medical certificate or be in good health.
Competencies
- Experience with MS Projects and project planning/scheduling is required.
- knowledge of computers
- Project-planning abilities Presentation and facilitation abilities
- skills with time management
- the capacity to exercise discipline
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